Between 1950 and 1985, tens of thousands of South Africans were arrested for contravening the Immorality Act (1950) that prohibited extramarital heterosex between whites and Blacks and was extended in 1957 to also criminalize the attempt to [...]

Creativity in the academy: A poet-scholar’s intellectual journey Gabeba Baderoon Gabeba Baderoon is a poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and [...]

Prof Gabeba Baderoon to deliver the 5th Stellenbosch University Annual Africa Day Lecture, Hosted by the Vice Chancellor In collaboration with the Centre for Collaboration in Africa Tile: The University and Its Hinterland: A [...]

Presented by the Australian High Commission in partnership with AVReQ Stellenbosch University Dialogues Across Violent Histories explores the critical role that Australian and African artists, and indigenous practitioners play in providing intersectional frameworks that respond [...]

What happens when people’s histories are silenced? In this dialogue, we revisit the history of the South African Cape Coloured Corps, “The Forgotten Ones”. An often silenced and marginalised aspect of South African military history [...]

Esther A. Armah is an author, playwright, international former journalist. She is CEO, The Armah Institute of Emotional Justice (The AIEJ), an international institute creating innovative racial healing resources. She is author of ‘Emotional Justice: [...]

Welcome to the Emotional Justice experience of narrative. We bring to life the pages of a racial healing roadmap that grapples with a legacy of untreated trauma, the language of whiteness and the troubled focus [...]

Radical Familiar. A different kind of aesthetic encounter Gabrielle Goliath situates her practice within the histories, life worlds and present-day conditions of black, brown, femme and queer life, refusing its terminal demarcation within a paradigm of [...]

The Necropolitical Violence of the Township: Interrogating Colonial and Apartheid Trauma Camp studies and Township studies have traditionally been two distinct fields of research. The aim of this lecture is not to combine the [...]

This presentation starts by contextualising violence in South Africa to generate more holistic insights and approaches to the eradication of gender-based violence. Next, as with violence, the concept gender is explored with relevance to the [...]

This presentation is an overview of the research Dr Motala has been carrying out in District Six, Cape Town. It will focus on the mapping of the site, and the resulting research projects that have [...]